Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
We should be declaring that we are sick of being sick from the rooftops, and demanding that those that make up the one percent elite listen when we shout that we are Tired Of Tears and that we should be able to believe just that little bit more in the power of humanity, that we can endure the worst nightmares that come our way and that those rains that fall from the eyes are only released when we have joy and the memory of beauty in our minds.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Shaun Evans, Roger Allam, Anton Lesser, James Bradshaw, Sean Rigby, Abigail Thaw, Caroline O’Neill, Naomi Battrick, Lucy Briers, Holli Dempsey, Ryan Gage, Richard Harrington, Stephanie Leonidas, Reece Ritchie, Carol Royle, Angus Wright, Sam Ferriday, Lucy Farrar, Oliver Boost, Beverley Klein, John Hales, Nicola Duffett, Flora London, Chris Foster, Susan Legg, Ben Alden.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Jodie Whittaker, Bradley Walsh, Tosin Cole, Mandip Gill, Ian Gelder, Clare-Hope Ashley, Aruhan Galieva, Nasreen Hussain, Buom Tihngang, Bhavnisha Parmar.
Every story needs a good villain, every tale requires and demands that one person, that extraordinarily unpleasant creature in the room who will push the fear that you feel every day to the point where it becomes overwhelming, succinct, with form, with trepidation surging through the veins; it is what keeps us alive, it is what asks us plainly to take strength from and defeat the one true foe, fear.
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A Calling Card from the past, the unexpected reminder of how your first introduction went and the abiding memories that stir, that reason, that plot with generous heart to return the smile of chance encounter or inspired reunion to your face; such is the power of music, of art overall, that we forget just how important such experiences are.
Selected from a series of gigs that accompanied the 1976 studio album release, Calling Card, Check Shirt Wizard – Live In ’77 is an album of understated pomp, unknowingly regal and simmering, silent panache that arguably has captured the great man at his most elegant and commercial best.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
The face that is able to look forward with anticipation and reflect upon past deeds and see both as equally valid moments of Time is to be honoured in stories and applause. We cheer as the chimes of midnight cause us to see the departing year and the days ahead in the seconds that it takes to grasp the hand of our neighbour and attempt to sing the words of joyous tidings by Robert Burns, so to is the birth of the Janus, the god of transition and reflections, celebrated and praised once more into existence.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Most people will look into the fire and see The Embers slowly losing their drama and they believe that it is a sign that the roar has begun to fade, that the kindling that warmed the soul has lost its ability to instill heat into the world; nothing could be further from the truth, to see the embers is to know that fire can be re-stoked, and in the hands of one with their own fire burning away in the hearts, their own enthusiastic inferno raging underneath the surface, then nature has its own way of sparking the fire back to life.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Neil Dudgeon, Nick Hendrix, Fiona Dolman, Annette Badland, Rosalie Craig, Katy Brand, Roger Barclay, Clare Holman, Joanna Page, Eleanor Bron, Thomas Dominique, Rohan Need, Karl Collins, Ami Okumura Jones, Tom Anderson.
Midsomer Murders rarely disappoints, staple enough television fare sometimes, at other moments gripping the fascination of the armchair detective to the point of novel surprise and yet for all the time the long running detective serial has been on British television, it has rarely thrown up a character such as Fleur Perkins, and as Annette Badland’s time as the new pathologist continues, so too does Fleur Perkins become a person of absolute interest.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Reece Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton, David Morrissey, Ralf Little, Steve Speirs, Dipo Ola.
Football may have changed to the point where many who filled the terraces after they came back from the battlefields of Europe, who stood on the side-lines as attendances dropped alarmingly as the spectre and disgrace of hooliganism ravaged the sport would now not recognise how much it has altered and boomed. However, one thing perhaps remains constant, and in amongst the wall to wall coverage, the upmarket cuisine that replaced the half time pies, sugar laden teas and copious amounts of Bovril; the roar of the crowd that declares that The Referee’s A…. (insert term of abuse of choice) has never left the game.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Paul Duckworth, John Evans, Jane Hogarth, Alan Stocks, Liam Tobin.
No matter how much you are urged to climb every mountain, to put your best foot forward and seize the day, you soon realise that life is far from a walk in the park, and the older you get, the more of an uphill struggle it becomes.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Liam Brennan, Christine Kavanagh, Jeffrey Harmer, Alasdair Buchan, Chloe Orrock, Ryan Saunders, Emma Cater, Michael Ross, Portia Booroff, Elissa Churchill, Jonathan Davenport, Nathanial Cagliarini, Ella-Grace Hanson, Daniel Dean.
Time never changes, it just alters the angle in which you stare at it, until finally you realise that what has already gone, has returned, and normally with even greater ferocity and fire than before.